Sounding device for dolls and other toys



Feb. 5', 1924.

S. MARCUS SOUNDING DEVICE FOR DOLLS AND OTHER TOYS File d April 27ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 5, i924.

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SAMUEL MARCUS, OI? BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SOUNDING DEVICE FOR DOLLS AND OTHER TOYS.

Application. filed April 27, 1922. Serial No. 556,940.

To all whom it may concem Be it known that I, SAMUEL citizen of theUnited States, and of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SoundingDevices for Dolls and Other Toys, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention pertains to sounding or talkin devices, so-called, for usein connec- 'tion with dolls and other toys, and it resides in the novelsoundin'g or talking device hereinafter described and claimed to bepositioned within the body of the doll or other toy and which devicewill remain inactive when the doll is in one position and operate toemit a sound, as talking or crying, when the doll is placed in anotherposition. Preferably the sounding device of my invention will be ofduplex character so as to emit a sound when the doll containing it isturned to a reclined position and also while the doll is being restoredto initial or vertical position, although my invention is not limited,in every instance. to the duplex character referred to.

ne purpose of the invention is to provide a durable, simple and highlyeiiicient sounding or talkin device to be placed within the body of a do1 and which will by preference be capable of giving one sound as Ma-ma,when the doll is reclined, and a variant sound as Pa-pa, when the dollis restored from its inclined position to a vertical position.

The device of my invention, in its preferred construction, comprises acylindrical body portion, a plunger movable vertically therein andadapted when moved in one direction to expand a bellows and when movedin the reverse direction to collapse said bellows, a sound box and reedmounted upon the said body portion and in communication therewith andequipped with an operating valve or damper, a second sound box and reedconnected by atube with the lower end of said body portion and with theinterior of said bellows, said second sound box having an operatingvalve or damper, and a rod connected with said plunger and movabletherewith and equipped at its outer exposed end with means for operatingthe valve or damper of one of said sound boxes when said rod is movedoutwardly by the plunger from within the said cylindrical body and withadditional means for operating the valve or M'AnoUs, a a. residentdamper of the other sound box upon the retreating motion of said rod,with said plunger, to the lower end of said cylindrical body. thisarrangement permitting, when a doll carrying it is reclined, theoperation of one reed and one sound box and when the doll is restored tonormal position. the oper ation of the other reed and sound box. Thedevice is thus of duplex character equipped in its preferredconstruction with two reeds, one to be operated when the plunger withinthe body moves in one direction and the other to be operated when saidplunger moves in the reverse direction.

My invention comprises a number of novel details as Well as novelfeatures considered in a broader scope, and said invention will be fullyunderstood from the detailed description hereinafter presented,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a, central vertical section through a sounding deviceembodying my invention. the section being taken on the dotted line 1-1of Fig. 3 and all of the parts of the device being shown in normalposition, as when a doll containing the same is in normal verticalposition;

Fig. 2 is a like view of the same showing the device as having beeninverted and as having had one of its reeds operated;

Fig. 3 is a top view of the same, and

Fig. 4 is a detailed horizontal section. taken on the line H of 1.

In the drawings, designates a cylindrical shell or the body portion ofthe device, and 11 a plunger or piston closely fitting the walls oi.said shell 10 and carrying on one side an operating rod 12 and beingconnected with the closed end of a yielding cylindrical bellows 13 whichnormally is below the plunger. 14. 15, respectively, designatethe soundboxes, 16, 17, respectively, the valves or dampers therefor, and 18, 19,respectively, the reeds for said sound boxes. The valve or damper 1-6 isformed of a plate hinged at one edge and connected with a spring forholding the valve or damper l6 normally closed over an opening 21 formedin the top of the sound box 14. Preferably a packing material, as thinsheet rubber 22, will be applied to the lower surface of the valve ordamper 16 so as to aid the same in efiecting the closure of the opening21 in the sound box. The valve or damper 16 also has, by preference, aventing opening 23,

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and the right hand edge, looking at Figs. 1 and 3, of the valve ordamper 16 projects laterally beyond the adjacent side of the sound box14 so as to form a projecting lip 24 to be engaged first by the wire rod25 and thereafter by the wire rod 26 carried by the plunger rod 12.

The valve or damper 17 is secured by means of a spring hinge 27 upon thetop of the sound box 15 and is adapted to close or open an aperture 28in the top of said box 15. The valve or damper 17 has an arm 29projecting laterally or toward the left, looking at Fig. 1, from thesprin hinge 27, and this arm 29 is adapted, alter the valve or damper 16has been operated and while the rod 12 and plunger 11 are returning tonormal position, to be acted on to open the valve or damper 17, first bya w re spring rod 30 and then by a longer Wll'e spring rod'31, the valve17 being permitted to temporarily close after the rod 30 has engaged thearm 29 and opened said valve or damper and before the end of the sprmgrod 31 engages said arm 29 and again opens the valve or damper 17 Theprimary opening of the valve or damper 17 by the rod 30 and then thereopening of said valve or damper by the rod 31, results in the reed 19giving, in connection with the sound box 15, a two syllable sound asMa-ma or Pa-pa.

. 'When the device is reversed in position, the

rod 25 first opens the valve or damper 16 and said valve or damper ispermitted to close after the outer end ofthe rod 25 passes its lip 24:,and thereupon the end of the red 26 will engage said lip and again openthe valve or'damper 16, holding the same open.-

in the manner shown in Fig. 2, the successive opening, closing andreopening of the valve or damper 16 causing the reed 18 in connectionwith the sound box 1 1 to emit a two syllable sound as Pa-pa or Ma-ma.The wire rods 25, 26, 30, 31 are connected at their 1 inner ends with acollar 82 which is secured upon the exposed and of the rod 12 by meansof a set-screw 33. The collar 32 may be adjusted on the rod 12 so as tocorrectly posi tion the spring rods 25, 2-6, 30, 31 carried by it withrespect to the valves or dampers 16, 17 should an occasion for suchadjustment arise.

The sound box 11 at its lower end is formed with a reduced neck portion31- which communicates at its lower end through a ort 35 with theinterior of the cylindrical liody 10, and said. neck portion 341 isformed with a flange 36 which is secured within the opening 35 in thetop of the body 10, said sound box 14 being in this manner secured tosaid body 10. At the upper end of the neck-portion 31., the reed 18 issecured by shellac 37 or other material, and said reed 18 projectsdownwardly into the chamber of the neck 31.

r ea-are The sound box 15 is mounted upon the top of the body 10 and italso has a reduced lower neck portion 38 into which the reed 19projects, and said reed 19 is held in position by shellac or othersuitable substance 39. The neck 38 communicates with the bottom of thecylindrical body 10 by means of a piece of tubing 40 which extends fromthe bottom 4:1 of the body 10 up around the Side of said body and entersthe neck 38.

The plunger or piston 11 is formed of metal so as to be of considerableweight, and upon the plunger or piston 11 is hung a rubher bag shownextended in Fig. 2 which constitutes the body of the bellows 13. Overthe closed end of the rubber bag constituting the bellows is provided acap 12 which closely binds the closed end of the bellows against theplunger or piston 11 and in addition affords a smooth surface forengagement with the inner walls of the cylindrical body portion 10. Thefree edges of the rubber bag constituting the bellows 13 are turnedoutwardly from under the lower edges of the body 10 and up around thesides of said body, and firmly secured by the bottom cap 11 constitutingthe bottom of the body 10, said cap 11 being forced upwardly against theoutwardly turned portions of the free end of the rubber bag andsqueezing the same tightly against said body 10, thereby forming an airtight joint around the bottom ca 41-1.

hen the device is in normal position, as shown in Fig. 1, the plunger orpiston 11 will be at the lower end of the body 10 and the bellows willbe in a collapsed condition, as indicated at 13, and at this time boththe valves or dampers 16, 17 willbe' in closed position. When the deviceis inverted, as shown in Fig. 2, the plunger or piston 11 will move fromthe lower end or the body 10 to the inverted upper end of the same, andat this time the rod 12 will be thrust outwardly and the rubber bagconstituting the bellows 13 will be extended, as shown in Fig. 2. lhemovement of the plunger or piston 11 toward the top of the body 10 whensaid body is reversed, results in the outer end of the spring rod 25first moving against 4 and opening the valve or damper 16 and thenreleasing said valve or damper to close under the action of the spring20, and then in the outer end of the spring rod 26 moving against saidvalve or damper 16 and opening" the same in opposition to the spring 20,said spring rod 26 holding the valve or damper 16 open, as shown in Fig.2. When the device is inverted or turned to the 0 tion shown in Fig. 2,the air which was a ove the plunger or piston 11 is forced out throughthe neck 34 and reed 18 into the sound box 1 1. and said reed is causedto 0p erate in a well known manner, the sound of the reed being modifiedby the opening and means closing and opening movements of the valve ordamper 16.

When the device is turned from the position shown in Fig. 2 to itsformer normal vertical position shown in Fig. 1, the plunger or piston11 moves back toward the bottom 41 of the body 10 and collapses thebellows 13 and drives the air from within the same out through the tube10 and into the neck 38 of the sound box 15, said air acting on the reed19 and the sound of the reed being modified by the Successive opening,closing, reopening or reclosing of the valve or damper 17 by spring rods30., 31 and spring hinge 27.

The device is thus double acting or luplex in character, the reed 18sounding when. the device is inverted and the reed 19 sounding when thedevice is restored to normal position. lit 1 should desire to have asingle acting device, which will be preferable for small dolls and toys,I may omit either one of the sound boxes 14, 15 with its connections.lit 1 should omit the sound box 15 I would also omit the tube 40 andbellows 1; as well as the spring rods 30, 31, and if I should refer toretam the sound box 15 to the exe usion of the other sound box, I wouldsimply remove the sound box 14 and the spring wire rods 25, 26,retaining the bellows and merely leaving the opening 35 in the top ofthe body 10 and as a vent opening.

. The rods 25, 26, 30, 31 will be referred to in the claims as arms, todistinguish them from the rod 12'. The vent opening 23 admits air to,the sound box 1 1 when the plunger is moving in a direction therefrom,and a vent opening 43 in the sound box 15 admits air to said box whenthe plunger is moving in a direction to expand the bellows 13.

l have shown and described the most complete and satisfactory form ofthe invention Known to me, but l do not wish to be limited to all of thedetails of form and construction shown, since l am aware that many ofthese details may within the spirit and scope of mg invention as claimedhe variously modi ed.

What ll claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is:

1. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow bodyshell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-boxcommunicating with said body and containing a reed and having an outletopening and a sell-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with anoutward- 1y projecting member and an operating rod connected with saidplunger and projecting through the end of said body and provided with anarm adapted to move aeainst said projecting member and open said valveor damper on the movement of said plunger.

rm Lil) 2. A sounding device of the character described comprising ahollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, asound-boa communicating" with said body and containing a reed and havingan outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor providedwith an outwardly projecting member, and an operating rod connected withsaid plunger and projecting through the end of said body and pro videdwith means adapted on the move ment of said plunger to move against saidprojecting member and open said valve or damper and then pass by thesame and per mit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also beinprovided with means to on the continue movement of the plunger moveagainst said projecting member and reopen said valve or dam r.

3. A. sounding device oi: the character described comprising a hollowbody shell, weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-boxcommunicating with said body and containing a reed and having an openingin its outer end and a self-closing valve or damper therefor, said valveor damper having a part projecting beyond the side of said box, and anoperating rod connected with said plunger and projectlnp' through theend of said body and provided with arms adapted on the movement of saidplunger to engage the projecting" part of said valve or damper andsuccessively open said valve or damper, permit the same to close andreopen the same.

A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow bodyshell, a weighty plunger hitting and movable therein, a sound box havinga reduced neck portion containing a reed and communicating with saidbody, said box also having an outlet opening and a sell-closing valve ordamper therefor, provided with an outwardly projecting member and anoperating rod connected with said plungerand projecting through the endof said body and provided with means adapted on the movement of saidplunger to move against said projecting member and open said valve ordamper and then pass by the same and permit said valve or damper toclose, and said rod also being; provided with means to on the continuedmovement of the plunger move against said projecting member and reopensaid valve or damper.

5. ll. sounding device eat the character described comprising a hollowbody shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a flexiblebellows-bag fastened at its inner end to said plunger edge to one end ofsaid body. said bag extending when the plunger moves in one di' rectionand collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, asoundboi: communicating with said body within the and at its outer orfree 1 lltl outer end of said ba and containing a reed and an outletopening and having a selfclosing valve or damper therefor, provided withan outwardly projecting member and an operating rod connected with saidpluner and rojecting through the end of said ody and provided with meansadapted on the movement of said plunger to move against said projectingmember and open said valve or damper and then pass by the same andpermit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also being providedwith means to on the continued movement of the plunger move against saidprojecting member and reopen said valve or damper.

6. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow bodyshell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a flexiblebellows-bag fastened at its innor end to said plunger and at its outeror free end being folded outwardly around one end of the sides of saidbody, said body having at said end a cap fitting thereon and securingsaid outer end of said bag in an air-tight manner to said body, and saidbag extending when the lunger moves in one direction and collapsing whenthe plunger moves in a reverse direction, a sound-boa communicating withsaid body within the outer end of said bag and containing a reed and anoutlet opening and having a selfclosing valve or damper therefor,proyided with an outwardly projecting member and an operating rodconnected with said plunger and pro ecting through the end of said odyand provided with means adapted on the movement of said plunger to moveagainst said projecting member and open said valve or damper and thenpass by the same and permit said valve or damper to close, and said rodalso being provided with means to on the continued movement of theplunger move against said pro'ecting memher and reopen said valve oramper.

'7. A sounding device of the character described comprim'ng a hollowbody shell. or weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a tleriblebellows-bag having a closed inner end fitted over said plunger andsecured thereon and at its outer or open end being tolded outwardlyaround one and out the sides of said body, said body having at said enda cap fitting thereon and securing said outer end 0t said bag in anair-tight manner to said body, and said bag extending when the lungermoves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves in areverse direction, a sound-boa communicating with said body within theouter end of said bag and containing a reed and an outlet opening andhaving a salt-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with aprojecting member and an operating rod connected with said plunger andprojecting through the end of said body and provided with means adaptedon the movement of said plunger to move against said projectin memberand open said valve or damper an then pass by the same and permit saidvalve or damper to close, and said rod also being provided with means toon the continued movement of the plunger move against said projectingmember and reopen said valve or damper.

8. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow bodyshell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-boxcommunicating with one end of said body and containing a reed and havingan outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper t erefor, providedwith a projecting member, a sound-box communicating with the other endof said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and aself-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with a projecting memherand an operating rod connected with said plunger and projecting throughone end of said body and provided with means adapted to move against theprojecting member of one of said valves or dampers and actuate said oneof said valves when said plunger moves in one direction and with meansto move against the projecting member of and actuate the other of saidvalves when the plunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound boxesbein mounted on the end of said body through which said rod projects andin operative relation to said rod.

9. A sounding device or the character described comprisin a hollow bodyshell, a weighty plunger tting and movable therein, a sound-boxcommunicating with one end of said body and containing a reed and havinan outlet opening and a self-closing va ve or damper therefor providedwith a projecting member, a sound-box communieating with the other endof said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and aself-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with a projecting memherand means operable from said plunger adapted to engage the projectingmember of and actuate one of said valves when said plunger moves in onedirection and to engage the projecting member of and actuate the otherof said valves when the plunger moves in the reverse direction, saidsound boxes being mounted on said body and in operative relation to saidmeans operated by said plunger.

10. A sounding device of the character described comprising ahollow'body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, aflexible bellows fastened at its inner end to said plunger and atits-outer or free end to one end of said body, said bellows extendingwhen the plunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plungermoves in a reverse direction, a sound box communicating with said bodyoutside of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outletopening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor provided with aprojecting member, a sound box communieating with said body at theinterior of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outletopening and a self-010s ing valve or damper therefor provided with aprojecting member, and an operating rod connected with said plunger andprojecting through one end of said body and provided with means adaptedto engage the projecting member of and actuate one of said valves whensaid plunger moves in one diroction and with means adapted to engage theprojecting member of and actuate the other of said valves when theplunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound boxes being mountedon the end of said body through which said rod projects and in operativerelation to said rod.

11. A. sounding device of the character described comprising a hollowbody shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein. a flexiblebellows fastened at its inner end to said plunger and at its outer orfree end to one end of said body, said bellows extending when theplunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves ina reverse direction, a sound box communicating with said body outside ofsaid bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and aself-closing valve or damper therefor provided with a projectin member,a sound box communieating with said body at the interior of said bellowsand containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closingvalve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member and meansoperable from said plunger adapted to engage the pro'ecting member 0tand actuate one of sai valves when said plunger moves one direotion andto engage the projecting member of and actuate the other or" said valveswhen the plunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound bore beingmounted on said body and in operative relation to said means operated bysaid plunger.

12. it. sounding device of the character described comprising a hollowbody shell, weighty plunger fitting and movable thcre= in, a flexiblebellows fastened at its inner end to said plunger and at its outer ortree end to one end of said body, said bel lows extending when theplunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves ina reverse direction, a sound box communicating with said body outside ofsaid bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet 0 ening and aself-closing valve or damper t ereior provided with a projecting member,a sound-box communicatin with said body at the interior of said ellowsand containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-clos ingvalve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member, and anoperating rod connected with said plunger and pro jectin through one endof said body and provi ed with two sets of arms, one set being adaptedon one movement of the plunger to successively in timed relation engagethe projecting member oi and impart two opening movements to one of saidvalves and the other set being adapted on the reverse movement of saidplunger to successively engage the projecting member of and open intimed relation the other of said valves, said sound boxes being mountedon the end of said body through which said rod projects and in operativerelation to said rod.

Signed at New York city, in the county of ew York and State of NewYorlr, this 26th day of April A. D. 1922.

SAMUEL MARCUS.

